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The Doha GOALS Forum will most likely be held in Doha next year, but the advisory board will explore several possibilities for the global sport conference, including holding it in other countries and hosting regional conferences, said Richard Attias, executive producer of the forum. A decision on th...

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Qatar National Bank and Qatar Petroleum signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with the Asian Football Confederation, "becoming the body’s latest commercial partners," according to the GULF TIMES. The agreements see QNB Group, QP, Qatargas and RasGas join companies "sponsoring events such a ...

Israel "will stage a large-scale swimming event for the first time next January after Netanya was selected to host the European Short Course Swimming Championships," according to Allon Sinai of the JERUSALEM POST. Approximately 600 swimmers from across Europe "will descend on Netanya for the four-da ...

F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone is lining up a Grand Prix in the capital of Azerbaijan as F1’s "move into turbulent new territory in the Black Sea region starts to look troubled," according to Kevin Eason of the LONDON TIMES. City officials in Baku have "put F1 on their list of must-have sporting eve ...

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER , "still in a coma in a French hospital after a skiing accident in late December, is to have the first corner of Bahrain's Formula One circuit named after him," according to Alan Baldwin of REUTERS. The German "won the inaugural Bahrain race" in '04 and also advised on the design ...

FIFA VP Prince Ali bin al Hussein "has added his voice to those who believe the issue of workers' rights in Qatar has become far more crucial than whether the 2022 World Cup is played in winter or summer," according to Andrew Warshaw of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. Prince Ali said that Qatar "had to be gi ...

At the start of every Winter Olympics, "the fact that Israel sends a delegation to the Games and the identity of its representatives are almost unanimously received by bewilderment, and often even ridicule, from the general public," according to Allon Sinai of the JERUSALEM POST. Olympic Committee o ...

A report will reveal this week that more than 400 Nepalese migrant workers "have died on Qatar's building sites as the Gulf state prepares to host the World Cup in 2022," according to Jamie Doward of the London GUARDIAN. The "grim statistic" comes from the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee, "a r ...

Grimshaw Architects "has been selected by Qatar’s Olympic Committee to design new sports facilities in four locations across the country," according to CONSTRUCTION WEEK ONLINE.
The Al Farjan Playgrounds project, aimed at helping communities develop a healthy lifestyle through sport, "will be ...

Organizers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have published a "Workers' Charter" in an attempt to protect the rights of migrant employees, according to Richard Conway of the BBC. The new 50-page document has "been developed in conjunction with the International Labour Organisation." The Int'l Trade Uni ...

Qatar National Bank Acting Head of Global Structured Finance Yusuf Saeed said that Qatar plans to spend as much as $205B on infrastructure between '13 and '18 "as the country invests its vast hydrocarbon wealth in a development boom," according to REUTERS. The Gulf Arab state is spending billions of ...